Cargill Alking starts operation of new China ARA facility
Asia’s leading ARA producer to promote China’s food industry going global
Cargill, the global food and agriculture leader and Alking Bioengineering, China’s ARA industrialization pioneer, today jointly announced that the arachidonic acid (ARA) joint venture Cargill Alking Bioengineering kicked off operation of the second production facility in Gedian Hubei. Cargill Alking aims to become Asia’s largest ARA production base and intends to promote Chinese food industry into a global market with Cargill’s expertise in food safety management and global network.
Referring to Cargill’s global food safety expertise, Yi Dewei, Chairman of Alking Bioengineering said, “This is one of main reasons why we chose Cargill as our partner. Utilizing Cargill’s expertise in food safety management and its broad global network, we will be able to help promote Chinese food industry into a global market.”
Cargill Alking is now the top leader in China’s ARA market. “The combination of Cargill’s global food safety expertise and Alking’s position as China’s ARA industrialization pioneer has contributed to the success of Cargill Alking,” said Greg Page, Cargill’s Global CEO. “The new facility highlights a significant advancement of our partnership,” Mr. Page added.
As an important material for infants’ brain and optic nerve development, ARA is an essential ingredient in infant food products. The Cargill Alking facility applies advanced food safety technology and implements Cargill’s corporate food safety manual to minimize food safety risk.
“Cargill Alking uses good manufacturing practices (GMPs) and a critical control point process, from raw material selection through to product delivery to customers. The new facility will enable us to offer high quality products to customers around the world,” said David Henstrom, Vice Chairman of Cargill Alking.
Having more than 1,200 factories in over 60 countries, Cargill is committed to using and sharing its global expertise to address China’s top challenges, such as food safety issues.
““The opening of Hubei plant reiterates Cargill’s commitment to help address the challenges in food and agriculture. Cargill is honored to be able to support the development of China’s food industry,” said Robert Aspell, Cargill China President. Cargill is also engaged in help improving China’s agriculture modernization and increase farmers’ incomes. Cargill’s recently launched project “Golden Key Plan” in China is aimed to provide a systematical training on modern animal nutrition and planting technologies for up to 500,000 farmers by 2015.
About Cargill in China
Cargill’s presence in China can be traced back to the early 1970's. Today Cargill is proud to be an integral part of China with over 5000 employees and 37 wholly owned and joint ventures plants in China. As an experienced agriculture, food and risk management supplier, Cargill is in a unique position to contribute its global experience and expertise to China’s principle needs of raising the incomes of its rural population and developing its countryside. By bringing our global expertise and experience to improve efficiency and add value for food and agriculture products in China, we aim to promote sustainable agriculture and a secure grain and food supply for China. For more information, visit http://www.cargill.com.cn.